A small clinical trial conducted at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute has led to two-thirds of children treated with an experimental immunotherapy treatment being cured of their allergy. Importantly, this desensitisation to peanuts persisted for up to four years after treatment.

“These children had been eating peanut freely in their diet without having to follow any particular program of peanut intake in the years after treatment was completed,” said the lead researcher, Prof Mimi Tang.

Peanut allergy is the most common cause of anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction, and one of the most common causes of death from food allergy.

To combat this Tang, an immunologist and allergist, pioneered a new form of treatment that combines a probiotic with peanut oral immunotherapy, known as PPOIT. Instead of avoiding the allergen, the treatment is designed to reprogram the immune system’s response to peanuts and eventually develop a tolerance.

It’s thought that combining the probiotic with the immunotherapy gives the immune system the “nudge” it needs to do this, according to Tang.

Forty-eight children were enrolled in the PPOIT trial and were randomly given either a combination of the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus with peanut protein in increasing amounts, or a placebo, once daily for 18 months.

At the end of the original trial in 2013, 82% of children who received the immunotherapy treatment were deemed tolerant to peanuts compared with just 4% in the placebo group.

Four years later, the majority of the children who gained initial tolerance were still eating peanuts as part of their normal diet and 70% passed a further challenge test to confirm long-term tolerance.

Tang said the results were exciting and had been life-changing for participants. “The way I see it is that we had children who came into the study allergic to peanuts, having to avoid peanuts in their diet, being very vigilant around that, carrying a lot of anxiety with that and, at the end of treatment and even four years later, many of these children who had benefited from our probiotic peanut therapy could now live like a child who didn’t have peanut allergy.”

The results are published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

If confirmed by larger clinical studies, the broader hope is that this treatment can have an impact on the high rates of food allergy among children.

“This is a major step forward in identifying an effective treatment to address the food allergy problem in western societies,” Tang said.

I read the website you mentioned, and you misstated what it says about payment. Actually you get the first 4 months free, then you pay for the rest of the year at that point, not after you heal. I see the healer's rates are around $700 per year.

My story in a nutshell: I'm 38 years old, male, and have been pretty constantly affected by seb derm for the last 20 years. In the early days I would use steroid creams to clear it up, then in the last 10 years resorted to anitfungals, which took longer to get the flare-ups under control (and never completely). I was blighted in the usual places: crooks of the nose, eyebrows, chin. It's a miserable condition but I'm happy to say that I've been completely free of it for the last six months.

Obviously, each of us is very different, our genetic make-up very unique, and what works for some will not work for others. But to cut a long story short, earlier this year I made a concerted effort to rid myself of seb derm. Firstly, I cut out alcohol and started eating a ketogenic diet, and a strict one: practically meat only, zero carb. I also started to moisturize with 100% caprylic acid. I can't say if this had any effect at all (we'll get to that in a minute), but after reading an article somewhere, I decided to also throw out all the products in my house that contained SLS (sodium Laureth/Lauryl Sulphate). I'd read that it was a very potent skin irritant and yet virtually every beauty/washing product you can lay your hands on has it in abundance.

The results: my flare-ups lessened by quite a degree but I could still see the slightly reddened areas in all the usual places. I wasn't using any SLS in the shower. Was there anything I was missing? Yes: toothpaste. Sure enough, SLS in the toothpaste. Hiding in plain sight. So I switched up with a natural, non-SLS toothpaste and ever since I have been completely free of seb-derm. To be sure it was the SLS, I restarted eating carbs and drinking alcohol and neither action has proved detrimental to my skin. I haven't stopped using the caprylic acid to moisturize but I have gone days travelling without using it and no ill-effect so I'm fairly certain the biggest culprit for me was SLS.

So now I wash with a sea kelp soap (nova scotia is the brand I think), SLS-free shampoo and JASON toothpaste. While I eat low-carb generally, I don't believe that my diet has any effect on my experience of seb derm.

So there it is. Try it out: eliminate SLS (don't forget your toothpaste), moisturize with 100% caprylic acid, and see if it helps. It turned my skin around in a matter of days.

Hi everyone, it has been several years since I was on Curezone. I used to have adult-onset asthma anytime I had bronchitis, but I followed an antibiotic protocol I found online from a guy not selling anything and claiming to have resolved his asthma (azithromycin and eventually doxycycline), and it also seemed to have gotten rid of it for me as I haven't had any flare ups in years. I took those antibiotics off and on for several years (although early on I also took diflucan, in case my problem was from fungus), not always both at the same time. Back in March 2017 or so I stopped taking all antibiotics (I was taking probiotics of various sorts also while taking antibiotics). I noticed that I started to develop dandruff at the very top part of my head, but it was limited to just a relatively small area and I didn't think much about it.

In about July I went to a warm mineral springs lake in Florida, swam lots daily for about 2 weeks. I got a bad sunburn on my face and body that took longer than usual to heal. On top of that, I had a tendon injury apparently from swimming so much (which I believe was related to the doxycycline use--weakened my normally strong tendons), and was more worried about that than the sunburn, so I got some ibuprofen initially (high dose) and lots of physical therapy for a couple of months. The tendon injury was more important at the time, as I was having difficulty walking and healing it (it did eventually heal and now feels fine--even ran a little on it the other day).

But then I noticed that my whole scalp was getting very dry, and my hair falling out from the inflammation. Then slowly the dryness seemed to spread to my face, and then to my chest and back. I have never had any sort of skin problems in my life, so this was all new to me and when it didn't go away with common things like lotion, I began to worry about it. I tried common remedies for dandruff--raw honey, H202 baths, and some other things, but nothing helped, and maybe even made it worse.

I finally went to a dermatologist for the first time in my life who said I was having an allergic reaction to something but couldn't figure out what, and gave me steroid creams. The steroid creams helped while I used them, but then the dryness came back. I haven't had this problem long, so I'm looking for wiser advice than I can give myself. When I had asthma, I tried lots of different things, although avoided steroids except for the times I ended up in the hospital or was about to end up in the hospital. I kind of want to avoid steroids still.

So the asthma seems to be gone, but the eczema is here, which doesn't make lots of sense to me. Any advice or thoughts on how to reverse this? I am in my early 40's now. I've read some recent research showing a connection between a molecule that some staph bacteria produce to possibly keep away other bacteria from intruding on their area, like this one https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/scientists-home-eczema-causing-germs-n779816 , and I've read others who say it is from a leaky gut. I've had some experience with trying to fix the gut when I had asthma, although I'm not sure how much that helped as much as the long-term antibiotic combo I took seemed to help. I have taken bleach baths (about 1/2 cup of household bleach in bathtub), and that seems to help with the itching for a period of time. I've had some basic allergy blood tests done showing I have low-level reactions to various food proteins, high level reactions to silver birch, but I think that was the same back when I had asthma problems. My auto-immune blood tests came back negative, thankfully. My eosiniphils are elevated some, like they were back when I had flare-ups of asthma.

Anyhow, sorry for the long post, but I like to try to be thorough and factual, in case my situation is similar to someone else. Right now I'm leaning toward a bacterial cause of this (from a combination of the mineral lake and sunburn?), although certainly I could see some convincing me my gut is messed up and I need to work on that. But if it is a gut thing, I just wonder why the asthma didn't come back as well? Or could it be the antibiotics somehow damaged my skin, or maybe even the ibuprofen? Anyhow, thank you for reading this long post.

So I literally made an account just to post on this thread even if its been so long since it was posted.

I started getting really dry fingertips when I was around 8/9 and I'm now 21 almost 22. So I've had this eczema for a while now.

One night I woke up to my fingers burning in a really bad uncontrollable itch and wrapped my cotton woven blanket around each finger and one at a time gave them a "rug burn" with the blanket by twisting the fabric really tight across my irritated skin. I'm not sure really how this idea came about but the burning sensation of the itch went away after the "burn" of the intense itch from the fabric.

About a week later I realized that the hot/cold water treatment helped so much. Especially since the itch would go numb. What a relief.

The water only made it worse but I found that using a latex glove over my fingers while I put them under the hot water kept my hands dry and the skin from going insane with the overstimulation to the nerves.

Imediatwly after I put on another glove that's coated with petroleum jelly inside of it.

I know there's some sick glove and petroleum jelly joke here but I assure you its been working for me. Hopefully I'll find a better easier solution in the near future. I'm just glad I'm not alone.

Taken internally, 1-2 drops of LugolsIodine taken internally got rid of my dyshidrotic eczema/pompholyx. If I miss a day or two it comes back. After several years of horrible itching and ugly hands, it's been such a relief to find this.

Thank you for sharing. I am going to try this the next time I have a blister outbreak!!
Let you know how it goes.
Like you I can not see the sence in spending bookoo dollars on things that may or may not work.
I have a number of ailments and a number of allergies to medicines peticularaly antibiotics. So i cant
Take a lot of traditional meds and am tracing things back to old remedies. Lol

Eczema herpeticum is treated with antiviral medications. If a secondary bacterial infection exists with eczema herpeticum, your doctor may also prescribe antibiotics.

Eczema herpeticum is potentially a very serious condition. Complications of this infection may include:

Scarring from blisters
Infection in the cornea of the eye known as herpetic keratitis, which left untreated, can lead to blindness
In rare cases, organ failure and death if the virus spreads to the brain, lungs and liver

Your post was 8 months ago and I'm hoping you're better. It started slowly with me too and I got lucky experimenting with something in getting rid of it on my hand. Every 3 months it would come and yesterday I put on Lugol'sIodine drops and in 8 hours my skin wasn't flaky or dry anymore but smooth, and no more redness. The one area I missed was still callousy feeling.
My situation is probably different from yours but I thought I'd let you know how I succeeded in making the redness and dryness vanish quickly.

My Son have eczema from within days of birth,he had food allergic reaction and ashtma. he ate something at a restaurant, broke out in hives, was taken to ER, and our journey to food allergies, severe eczema, seasonal allergies, and digestive issues started. I did the Elimination Diet anyways to figure out what was triggering the outbreaks– if anything. Also, be weary of eating out and/or even the slightest processed foods which have been known to cause our son to break out. And take into consideration laundry soaps, lotions, too many baths, etc. especially during the dry winter months (at least where we live).

I feel sorry for people who think a restrictive diet is the answer to candida. It's not, as anyone who has tried it will tell you. Yes it does help lessen the symptoms but the candida remains, just waiting for the next time you slip up and eat something sweet. There is an electronic solution to this problem and it isn't very expensive. Actually it's probably less expensive than the cost of candida supplements for a few months.

To me, the video gave an example of how tough changes have to occur in order to thrive or even survive. I can definitely relate, because drastically changing my diet and taking some other steps to improve my health DEFINITELY wasn't easy, and its still a process, but I am already starting to feel healthier after taking these changes.

The diet didn't help as much as I thought it would. What seems to be helping the most is the peroxide/baking soda brushing. My lips are peeling in spots. The skin that isn't peeling is very hard and tight. Sometimes it's hard to smile. I've tried putting lemon juice on them but I'm not sure if it is helping. I'm also drinking lemon juice, but am still looking for results. I apply castor oil too.

I just found this thread and realized it was written 12 years ago!?!? I'm curious - have you found relief?? My 11 year old daughter had this a couple of years ago so severely on her hand but wasn't diagnosed as this- they said it was a strep infection. She recently started to get it again and I started treating it with essential oils, a probiotic, omega 3s, And it responds in a couple days now instead of going crazy like it did that time. Just wondering if you had any advice you'd learned to share. Thanks so much!

Hello, it could be due to poor circulation in your body. This would lead to lethargy, skin problems, and a lot more. Tried using microcirculation therapy initially for my back pain, but i noticed major improvements in my skin as well. My friends noticed I have glowing skin. It's called d'oxyva, you should give it a try.

My cure for eczema was cutting out the deadly nightshade, says MasterChef judge John Torode

'I've had eczema all my life. I was taken off milk as a baby because of it,' he says. 'I used to get it from my wrists to my shoulders. I never had it on my face but I used to get it in my hair and from the top of my thighs all the way down the back of my legs.'

John says: 'I cut out all the deadly nightshade family - potatoes, aubergines, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers - I took out ginger, garlic and stopped drinking caffeine and ate a lot more green vegetables and herbs.'

Incredibly, the eczema eased after a month and, even more incredibly, has never returned, even though he no longer follows a restricted diet or needs regular acupuncture sessions. He believes that this is because of the way the treatment helped him not just physically but emotionally, as well.

'As well as curing my eczema the acupuncture therapist talked to me about other things that were going on,' explains John. 'I changed the way I thought about things.

'I actually said to myself, right, what is important and what is not important? Relationships and friendships and family are really important, if not the most important, thing. So it's different now. I'm different now.'

John lives in Streatham, South London, with his second wife Jessica, whom he married in 2000, and their two children, Jonah, four, and two-year-old Lulu.

He no longer works in the kitchen but still runs the London restaurant Smiths of Smithfield, which he opened in 2000, as well as presenting MasterChef.

One in five children suffers from this disease - with 80 per cent of cases occurring before the age of five, according to the National Eczema Society.

The good news is that in about 65 per cent of childhood cases, the condition clears up by Eczema, which affects 12 to 15 per cent of all school-age children and 10 per cent of adults, causes the skin to become dry, itchy and flaky.

It is often red and painful, and sometimes weeps or bleeds. It is most common in the creases of the elbows and wrists, and behind the knees. It also affects the face, in particular the cheeks.

There are two main types of eczema: atopic and contact. Contact eczema is caused by substances that irritate the skin, such as detergents, soaps and perfumes, and can be avoided by keeping clear of those irritants.

Atopic eczema is thought to be caused by mutations to a gene that helps form the skin's outer protective layer.

Many sufferers find certain triggers make this kind of eczema worse, such as emotional or physical stress, illness, certain foods and even winter weather can cause severe breakouts of eczema by drying out the skin and causing it to become chapped.

The cure for John's eczema also had another, unexpected benefit. Since childhood, John has also suffered from asthma.

Around half of all eczema patients go on to develop asthma, accounting for about a quarter of the 5.2million asthma sufferers in the UK. The number of sufferers has increased by 50 per cent in the past 30 years. Experts believe the same gene mutation causes both conditions.

'I was told I shouldn't run but then, once the eczema cleared up, I thought, "I'm going to teach myself to run."

'I went online to Nike - they have a training plan of zero to five kilometres in six weeks. The following year I ran the London marathon.

'Now I don't need to use my inhaler so much. I love swimming and I cycle the seven miles from the house to the restaurant four days a week.'

Why John's recipe for soothing his skin may work

The nightshade - or Solanceae - family of plants includes the potato, capsicum (paprika, chilli pepper), tobacco, tomato, aubergine and the petunia, grouped because of their similarly shaped flowers.

'Some patients' eczema is linked to an allergy to the trace minerals, namely nickel, naturally found in the edible parts of these plants,' says Dr Riadh Wakeel, consultant dermatologist at the Whittington Hospital, North London.

Allergies are caused by the immune system over-reacting to a substance that would normally be considered harmless - an allergen. Exposure to a potential allergen can provoke an abnormal allergic response. This may occur after first contact or often after repeated exposure.

However, once the immune system has responded in this way, it remembers the reaction and triggers it again.

'We don't know what causes eczema,' says Dr Wakeel. 'But we know it can be exacerbated by allergies to food.

'The allergy is usually acquired when the patient touches the food and becomes sensitised. Again, we don't know why this happens. Subsequently, if the food is eaten it can cause an allergic reaction, which makes the eczema flare up.

'By avoiding the foods, symptoms can be relieved and the eczema treated with other medication, such as topical steroids.

'Some patients like John find they can go back to eating normally, while others have to permanently exclude these foods.

'I would not recommend this to every patient but if they feel their eczema is aggravated by something they eat, then they could try cutting it out of their diet for four weeks to see if things improve.'

Hi, I know that this is a late response to your original post. Are you still taking iodine? Have your digestive issues resolved?

I have a similar story, and am currently going through constipation related to taking Iodoral. This has been tough for me because in addition to my hypothyroid symptoms, I have gone through years of terrible digestion.

Finally, I opted for a drastic measure - FMT - in the Bahamas with Taymount clinic. The results were fantastic. I could feel my microbiome fully restored and digestion came naturally and easy regardless of my diet which is healthy anyways.

Two weeks after starting on iodoral to help boost my thyroid, I started to get backed up. I have some advices, but also maybe need some advices. I wonder if anyone resolved constipation related issues by switching to Lugols? It seems logical that Iodine drops would absorb more quickly into the system as opposed to pills that might travel all the way to the colon.

Update: (Day 1)I have been fighting eczema since my 30s. It would flare up and go away, then appear in a different area on my body. Usually an appearance on my arm or leg would go away in a matter of about a week. This was due to the use of steroid creams. As of 2 weeks ago, I stopped using steroid creams to fight eczema naturally and attack at the root of the cause. Currently I've been battling eczema on my neck and a small bald spot at the nape of my hair. It's disgusting and itches terribly, especially after I jog or spin.

Like one of the writers on this thread, I've tried EVERYTHING, diets, creams, ointments but nothing worked. Now I'm trying this protocol. I took my first dose this morning and just took another at 1 today. I plan to take one more tonight before bed...so 3 doses per day. I can say that immediately after drinking this concoction (carbicarb) this morning, the itching my neck stopped. However, after an hour or so, ithe itch returned, but stopped again after the second dose. I'm not sure how long I'm suppose to take this protocol, but I plan to continue with 3 doses per day until all signs of eczema is gone.

Just wanted to share that my daughter with Dyshidrotic Eczema went through prick testing -- no reactions -- then patch testing (the North American Comprehensive 80 [NAC-80] version), and had a strong nickel reaction.

We had her braces taken off (is having a nickel-free retainer made, then she will get Invisalign in a few years).

Within a day her rash was noticeably calmer. Three weeks later, it is gone!

We tried endless creams, ointments and diet changes first.

I know not everyone gets definitive results from allergy testing, but we are fortunate to now have a clear direction.

Just did my *** liver flush.
Lost total count many years ago, but the number of flushes is probably in the 3 digit category. I think it must be my second or my third flush this year.
I usually try to make at least 3-4 flushes per year (during the last 20 years).

It all started yesterday in the morning.
Nothing fatty during the day yesterday, to maximize the effect of Epsom Salt and olive oil.

Yesterday, I ate only small amount of cucumber and I ate several sweet blue plums during the day.

Any time I felt hungry, I ate 1-2 plums.

In the evening I ate some wild raspberries on the beach.

Did not drink much water during the day, and was on the beach from 5pm until 9pm.

A lot of sunshine yesterday.
Sunshine and swimming in the sea is very healthy between 5pm and 9pm :-)

It was all a part of my liver flush, but you can skip the swimming part, if you are not close to the ocean.

Beware, burning your skin on the sun between 9am and 5pm may not be very healthy for your skin. Take the sun before 9am or after 5pm.

I came home very late, close to 10pm (22:00) and blended 2 tbsp of Epsom Salt with a large glass of water, and drunk it all at once, at 10 pm.

At 11:20pm, I squeezed juice from 2 grapefruit, and blended it with a 2/3 of a cup of Extra-Virgin Olive-Oil and drunk it all at once.

Was active and awaken until late, until maybe 3am.

Before going to bed and sleeping, I took a small amount of grapefruit juice.

Woke up at 10 am. Blended 2 tbsp of Epsom Salt with a large glass of water, and drunk it in 2 moves, 15 min apart.

Waiting for the main diarrhea. I am not counting any stones, just enjoying my liver flush.

Not to mention, if you suffer from any chronic constipation, diarrhea, IBS, IBD, low weight issues, high weight issues, digestive disorders or allergies or gallbladder problems or shoulder or arm pain, or just about anything .

There is hardly a health problem that is not related to your liver or your intestines or that is not showing some symptoms on your skin or your nails or your hair or your mouth, or your tongue or your eyes.

I suffered from eczema for most of my life, since I was 2 years old. During this 30 or so years, I saw numerous dermatoligists and tried nearly every conventional treatment under the sun - steroids, light therapy, etc.

When this didn't work, I started on a journey of discovering as much knowledge about skin conditions as I could. I paid large amounts of money for 1-2-1 consultations with functional medicine practitioners, nutritionists and mindset coaches. Read most of the internet, then read some more.

I even trained for a full 12 months for a nutrition certification to build up my skills.

I am now symptom free. I haven't had a repeat prescription from the doctors for about 2 years. I manage my skin using nutrition, balancing my gut and immune system to prevent flare ups.